Ronttonen

Name: Ronttonen
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Finnish
Ingredients: 2 cups rye flour, for dough; 3 potatoes or 1 rutabaga, boiled and mashed; 1/4 cup sugar; Butter, for finishing

Rönttönen/RURN-tur-nen/

Also known as: Karelian Rutabaga Pastry

About this dish

A Karelian rye pastry filled with sweetened mashed potato or rutabaga, similar to karjalanpiirakka but sweeter.

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Ingredients

🌾2 cups rye flour, for dough

🥔3 potatoes or 1 rutabaga, boiled and mashed

🍬1/4 cup sugar

🧈Butter, for finishing

Method

Serves 4

Make a thin rye dough and roll into small ovals.

Mix mashed potato or rutabaga with sugar for the filling.

Spread the filling onto the dough ovals, pinching the edges up slightly.

Bake at high heat until the edges are crisp.

Brush with melted butter and serve warm.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Rönttönen is a traditional Karelian pastry, distinguished from karjalanpiirakka by its sweeter rutabaga or potato filling.

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